Radio Amateur received Apollo 11

The ARRL report on the reception of signals from the Apollo 11 lunar astronauts by a Radio Amateur 41 years ago.

In July of 1969, a ham radio operator and amateur radio-astronomer by the name of Larry Baysinger, W4EJA, accomplished an amazing feat. He independently detected radio transmissions from the Apollo 11 astronauts on the lunar surface.

Fortunately, his accomplishments were recorded by Glenn Rutherford, a young reporter for the Louisville (Kentucky) Courier-Journal. “Lunar Eavesdropping: Louisvillians hear moon walk talk on homemade equipment,”

Read the ARRL story at
http://www.arrl.org/eavesdropping-on-apollo-11